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Well, wherever it is ranked, it’s quite a piece of work IMO.
What Exit? I want that play list. Heck, I want to buy a weekend’s block of airtime at a radio station to go through it.
(raises hand) Caught it on second run at a campus film fest a couple of years after it first came out.
The beach is a place where a man can feel he’s the only soul in the world that’s real. Let me fall into the ocean, let me go down to the sea…
Indeed! We bow deeply in his memory.
The bulk of that is on my CD players, I have a 200 & 300 CD Carousel players ganged together with a little over 400 CDs loaded. I bought a lot of CDs last millennium. Though I think I have to get one of the units straightened out. It isn’t working correctly.
I’m going to cue it up and have a re-listen. It’s been decades since I last heard Quadrophenia, so need to see how it and Who’s Next and Who Are You and maybe even Tommy stand my test of time. That said, immediately I can hear Love Reign Over Me and 5:15
As an aside I worked college radio for 4 years and music was a huge part of my life. Then I moved to China for 20 years and pretty much only listened to blues. Every once in a while I get jonesing for what I grew up listening to in the 70’s, and it is weird that what I remember as being great was not the album that is now my favorite. For example, the Led Zep album that is clearly my favorite today is Presence (but if you asked me before I went thru the catalogue I would have said Physical Graffiti). YMMV. Just an observation of mine.
Maybe I’m doing the math wrong, but that’s < 350gb. You can fit all that on a single 1tb drive, almost 3 times. Totally uncompressed. Rip those disks then store them somewhere safe, boomer 
No.
Closer is the best album ever recorded. And I can pick another fifty before I get anywhere near those dinosaurs.
I had to google that: Joy Division? I’ve actually never even heard of the band.
Lol
There are literally thousands of albums from more serious artists that are better than anything Joy Division recorded. every New Order album is better than their bastard child band.
I’m familiar with the board tendency to ignorance of anything musical post-1976, but I’ve seldom seen it this bad.
I have no idea what that is even supposed to mean?
Seriously? Joy Division aren’t exactly obscure - they were one of the most influential bands from the 1980s onwards. How old are you? I’m an early GenXer and knew of (but didn’t properly appreciate) Joy Division within a few years of their demise and transformation into New Order.
For what it’s worth I love Quadrophenia - I think it’s the best Who album, and is in my top 10 ever - along with Blonde on Blonde, Let It Be (Replacements not Beatles), 69 Love Songs, Rubber Soul, Kind of Blue, and After the Gold Rush, and a few others that change whenever I think of them.
I will have to echo both if those sentiments.
Love Will tear Us Apart was NME’s second best song of all time behind Smells Like Teen Spirit in 2014.
And surely Joy Division are the bastard parents of New Order.
That is rather surprising but they were certainly not huge at the time worldwide, very sadly they never got to break the USA. I’d highly recommend dipping in to their back catalogue, they were massively influential. I can’t hear “transmission” without hearing the Stone Roses.
I was and remain a huge fan of Joy Division, My early teen years were a rather eclectic mix with The Clash, The Jam, Joy Division, New wave, New Romantic, ska, reggae and electronica all fighting for turntable time depending on my mood (and the Carpenters…but that was less well known to my friends).
The Who and particularly Tommy and Quadraphenia were ever-presents. The latter I think is a work of absolute genius as an album, I do think of it as a coherent whole and a concept that demands complete listening in a way that “London Calling” or “This is the Modern World” do not.
It is probably up there with “The Wall” as my favourite “Album”. A lot of others I rank as highly (e.g. the ones mentioned above and Purple Rain, 1999, The Smiths etc.) but as a collection of great tracks rather than as an single artistic work.
And yes, I’d recommend watching the documentary. Someone referred to “dinosaurs” which of course is true now but the album idea came direct from, and was sketched out by, a teenaged Pete Townsend. They weren’t lumbering anachronisms when they wrote “Tommy” and “Quadraphenia” For context, had they all first met in 2010, Tommy would have been released in 2015 and Quadraphenia earlier this year. Pete Townsend woud have been 27/28 when creating the latter.
If you haven’t heard it yet, the orchestral version of Quadrophenia that Townshend put out a few years ago is a great spin on the album. Alfie Boe, who sings the part of Jimmy, has one hell of a voice.
New Order are the bereft, grieving kids of Joy Division, a bit lost, angry and aimless for a while, carrying on the parent’s business but it seemed to take a while for them to find their feet.
“Blue Monday” was, and still remains, the greatest pure dance track committed to 12 inch vinyl (with artistically credible but financially inept packaging). My kids, without any prompting, when they first heard it began spontaneous head-bobbing and shuffling in the back of the car. Of course they did, it is irresistible and timeless.
27 is not “teenaged”, and I can’t find any references to it being a revisited teenage project as opposed to conceived just the year before…
New Order are Joy Division, as far as I’m concerned. And Closer remains their best album, even if they’ve done great ones both before and since.
I suppose I just listened to Joy Division’s greatest song ever: “Love Will Tear Us Apart.” Not only have I never heard it before, but it’s pretty crappy.
For the life of me I can’t imagine how you could even put that in the same category as The Who.
It’s like comparing a Lada to a McLaren.
I *don’t *put it in the same category.
It is so far ahead of The Who as not be in the same hemisphere…
And let’s say some people disagree about the “pretty crappy” bit.
Although, I must admit, it takes big brass ones to talk about “greatest of all time” anything when you’re evidently ignorant of whole eras of modern music.
Meh. I like a lot of stuff, but Joy Division is not a band I’ve ever heard of, and frankly they do nothing for me.
It’s all just personal taste though. No hard feelings.
I’m willing to bet I could ask 10 friends my age (mid to late 50s) and not one of them would know of Joy Division.
My dad probably didn’t know of Alice Cooper or Lynyrd Skynyrd. That’s just how things go.
The difference here is that I am well aware of The Who’s work. I even like some of it (60s stuff only, as it turns out) . But yeah, I agree it’s all taste.